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Deep cuts from Pete Buttigieg’s Rhodie résumé.

In 1988, Spy magazine published a piece by Andrew Sullivan titled “All Rhodes Lead Nowhere in Particular.” In it, Sullivan made fun of the “bland eugenic perfection” of the typical Rhodes scholar. He was riffing on the old platitude “A Rhodes scholar is…

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US hate preacher will visit Ireland despite EU ban.

Steven Anderson, an anti-LGBT hate figure who has called for the “execution” of all gay people, will visit Dublin later this month after being banned from entering most of Europe. The American preacher was due to visit the Netherlands, Sweden…

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Brunei says it won’t enforce death penalty for gay sex.

Brunei has backtracked on enforcing laws introduced last month that would have made sex between men and adultery punishable by stoning to death. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah on Sunday extended a moratorium on the death penalty to cover the new legislation…

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Anatomy of a smear: How a fake story about Buttigieg was born.

This is a story about how political operatives tried to take down a presidential candidate, and ended up just humiliating themselves.It’s also a story about how a smear was spread by right-wing websites — and was cleaned up by newsrooms that…